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Playhouse Season 6 Episode release dates & where to watch

Premiered

Wednesday, November 7, 1979

Ended: Sunday, August 10, 1980

When does Playhouse Season 6 come out?

Playhouse Season 6 premiered Wednesday, November 7, 1979 on BBC Two and ended Sunday, August 10, 1980. The season has 31 episodes.

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Playhouse Season 6 release schedule

Playhouse Season 6 episode release dates
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1. School Play

A play about the horrors of life at an English public school - with all the schoolboys played by adults.

Wednesday · 47 years ago

2. Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

A dissident, Alexander, has been pronounced insane by the authorities (although he isn't), and finds himself sharing a cell with a genuine mental patient, Ivanov.

Wednesday · 47 years ago

3. The Brylcreem Boys

Cpl. George Hunn's sentry post is knocked over and he wakes to find he is suffering from frost bite of the face. Sent to hospital he is put on a ward with aircrew who have mental issues. He is trapped reenacting their missions at night.

Wednesday · 46 years ago

4. An Affinity with Dr. Still

Wednesday · 46 years ago

5. Home Movies

Keith and Alec have been making holiday movies, together for 25 years. Alec suddenly spots a moment between wife Sybil and Keith. He realises daughter Katie is actually Keith's and she is in a sexual relationship with her 'brother' John.

Wednesday · 46 years ago

6. Sweet Wine of Youth

Wednesday · 46 years ago

7. Speed King

In 1935, Sir Malcolm Campbell's obsession is to win the World's Land Speed Record in his car Bluebird. Speed King is about the man, the car, and the ruthless, but irresistible, public ambition of a world hero.

Wednesday · 46 years ago

8. Pews

Set in a north country synagogue, a group of Jewish men have to organise a shiva, however, not having the required number of their faith, resort to recruiting George, a 'non-Jew', to make up the numbers.

Saturday · 46 years ago

9. Gentle Folk

An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from politics and the Arts—including a young man prone to disturbing premonitions.

Saturday · 46 years ago

10. Trouble with Gregory

Gregory has troubles enough when Ella moves him out and sets him up for a job with the radio. Suspicions of infidelity can make the world a disturbing place. But then he still has to meet the new neighbours...

Wednesday · 46 years ago

11. Lifelike

A comprehensive school is praised for its authenticity, but one schoolboy does not agree with this assessment.

Saturday · 46 years ago

12. The Enigma

An upper-class young man has rejected his affluent background, but, when a crisis comes, reverts to type pretty quickly.

Saturday · 46 years ago

13. Hesther for Example

Cousin, W. Clifford Mill, ran a dirty postcard business; which brings Paul to the country in search of a profitable afternoon. Hesther knows the value of most things and, when evening falls, she turns his visit to her own advantage.

Saturday · 46 years ago

14. The Best of Friends

What is friendship? Why do two grown men behave like egomaniac children or flustered prima donnas? And when they meet unexpectedly after ten years, how will things be?

Saturday · 46 years ago

15. In Hiding

A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.

Saturday · 46 years ago

16. Rottingdean

Mother is manic, Father frustrated. Son sees himself as quite an operator. Daughter wants to change the dreary world of Jubilee-year England. The day has come. Back to Rottingdean... if all goes smoothly.

Saturday · 46 years ago

17. The Dig

Friday · 46 years ago

18. Happy

Friday · 46 years ago

19. Mary's Wife

A married transvestite comes to terms with their true gender identity.

Friday · 46 years ago

20. Games Without Frontiers

Nobody goes to Amsterdam to wander about. It's either the Rijksmuseum or the red-light district. On the boat going home Clive and Stewart admit to not having spent long in the museums – so what did they get up to in Amsterdam?

Friday · 46 years ago

21. The Unborn

A physicist has visions of his unborn baby – it turns out that the child will grow up to become a Hitler-like dictator responsible for World War III.

Friday · 46 years ago

22. Electric in the City

Friday · 46 years ago

23. Blue Remembered Hills

Repeated from Play for Today

Friday · 46 years ago

24. Thank You Comrades

Friday · 46 years ago

25. Coming Out

Friday · 46 years ago

26. Crest of a Wave

Friday · 46 years ago

27. Freedom of the Dig

Friday · 46 years ago

28. A Walk in the Forest

Sunday · 46 years ago

29. Hallelujah, Mary Plum

A talented, independent artist lives by the sea with her daughter. As summer approaches, she faces two threats to her way of life: the local doctor who is in love with her and her unhappy sister who comes to stay.

Sunday · 46 years ago

30. Dalhousie's Luck

Our gamble is over, Dalhousie. You'll walk at dawn tomorrow as agreed, but in case you've no mind to return, there's one fact might persuade you. On what you do hangs not only your life but hers .

Sunday · 46 years ago

31. An Ordered Life

German composer Anton Webern survives Naziism only to be shot by an American GI in the closing days of WWII. His son, against his father's wishes, joins the Wehrmacht and is killed in a railway accident in 1943.

Sunday · 46 years ago

Playhouse Season 6 guest stars

  • Robert Hardy

    Robert Hardy

    Sir Malcolm Campbell

  • Rosalind Knight

    Rosalind Knight

    Mrs. Mattison

  • Derek Martin

    Derek Martin

    Reg

  • Desmond Llewelyn

    Desmond Llewelyn

    Major Bill Whittall

  • Tony Caunter

    Tony Caunter

    Harry Leech

  • Garrick Hagon

    Garrick Hagon

    Commentator

  • William Hootkins

    William Hootkins

    Mr. Bowles

  • Elizabeth Ashley

    Elizabeth Ashley

    Medium

  • Shane Rimmer

    Shane Rimmer

    Ambassador Bingham

  • Allan Surtees

    Allan Surtees

    Mr. Greeves

  • Jeremy Kemp

    Jeremy Kemp

    James Lombard

  • Denholm Elliott

    Denholm Elliott

    Geoffrey Treasure

  • Michael Kitchen

    Michael Kitchen

    Rose S.J.

  • Tim Pigott-Smith

    Tim Pigott-Smith

    Timothy Perkins

  • Jeremy Clyde

    Jeremy Clyde

    The Hon C. St J. Denton

  • Richard Morant

    Richard Morant

    Younger A.L.P.

Playhouse Season 6 FAQ

When does Playhouse Season 6 come out?

Playhouse Season 6 premiered Wednesday, November 7, 1979 on BBC Two.

How many episodes are in Playhouse Season 6?

Playhouse Season 6 has 31 episodes.

Are new episodes of Playhouse Season 6 released weekly?

New episodes are released weekly.

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